China’s ‘Flash Boys’ Hedge Funds Eye End To Hiatus

(Reuters) China’s data-driven “flash boys” – hedge fund managers who for years have been handicapped by government curbs on tools to short-sell stocks – are dusting off high-speed trading products as Beijing revives the country’s financial derivatives market. China’s financial futures exchange last month relaxed trading rules on stock index futures and vowed to boost liquidity of that market, while the country’s two largest stock exchanges said they aimed to launch new stock index option products this year.